@@abbieb8130 It was BAD. Vespasian was the first emperor since Claudius to not be a total maniac or be quickly deposed. The Crisis of the Third Century was even worse though. For something like 80 years, Rome averaged a new emperor every 6-18 months. It came to an end with Diocletian, and after one more round of civil war, Constantine finally stabilized the damaged empire more long term.
having now watched unbiased history, this skit really undersells the nature of the praetorian (watch the crisis of the 3rd century as the praetorian killed over 50% of the emperors including Aurelian the restorer of the world)
The Praetorian Guard were the ULTIMATE bad guys of Rome. Constantine finally disbanded them after becoming emperor in 313. If Disney ever made a film on Ancient Rome, these guys or their Captain would have been the villains.
I do love it - especially learning about the lives of people! Going to start reading a book about Anthony Ashley Cooper - 7th Earl of Shaftesbury soon - he was a 19th century reformer :) Hope you get where you want to be with your history! Work hard and do well :D
Nero was betrayed by the Praetorian guards and sealed in a room of the palace. Before they could get to him, Nero had a friend in the room with him cut his throat for him.
Grogery 1 if the guard got a bonus every time they got a new emperor, then it would seem to give the guards more reason to make sure the emperor kept changing... imagine the xmas bonus they got in 69CE.
@@punkwrestle You are correct, the Praetorian Guard was in some ways responsible for the downfall of Rome because every time they wanted some money they killed the emperor and then auctioned off the job to the next sucker.
I actually remember that being a scenario on "Age of Empires: Rise of Rome". I think building a Wonder was required to beat the other CPU players on that level.
This is obvious from the skit, which references the "Year of the Four Emperors". During this time, the Praetorian Guard was instrumental in Nero's downfall, installed Galba as emperor, decided it didn't like Galba (decrease in pay), killed Galba, and installed Otho as emperor. Unfortunately for Otho, the German legions were stronger than the Praetorian Guard. Unfortunately for Vitellius, the Syrian, Judean, and Danubian legions supported Vespasian, beginning the line of Flavian emperors.
ngl I'm still referring to this as an ancient history student, but with names like Tacitus and Suetonius racing through my head and a detailed practice essay about 69ad and it's failures open on my laptop 😂😂
Apparently his first few years as emperor were actually ok, but it seems to have went downhill when he fell ill or when some assassination attempt was made, I can't remember which one it was.
The ECW isn't a period I know a lot about - I have a rather thick book on the life of Oliver Cromwell, I have yet to read! I'm sure I'll get through it some day :)
From what I can tell, it was a bit of both, the Guard tried to kill him, but Nero killed himself to prevent the guard from having the satisfaction of killing him
Figured it out: it's Jalaal Hartley. He is in the Agincourt sketch too. Wasn't with the show very long, but did the ironic-indifference thing really well.
I started reading a biography about Marie Antoinette, but got a bit confused with all the people mentioned - I didn't finish it - another book to read sometime. I started reading Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (before the film was thought of), another interesting character. 2 fascinating books are - The Princes in the Tower (Alison Weir) and Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II (Paul Doherty). Princess (Jean Sassoon) is a good book about a Saudi Royal Princess - true story!
I love history - especially Roman history They had some rather colourful, (shall we say), emperors. They were an amazing culture, despite the myriad of evil emperors they were phenominal architects, were clean, and cultured. They grew to be very hedonistic and arrogant - there was a lot of infighting, laziness etc which brought about their downfall!
... it's called The Lost Life of Eva Braun (Angela Lambert) - very interesting! Another book I have yet to start (it's VERY thick and I have other things on the go!) is Hitler and Stalin Parallel Lives (Alan Bullock) - looks really good! Have you seen The Pianist? Get hold of the book (it's by Wladyslaw Szpilman) - it's good and has excerpts of the German Officer's diary - not all 'Nazis' were pro-Hitler...
Bloody hell, man, the caps are unnecessary. To address your point, yes he was in a villa, offered by a sympathiser, but that doesn't really detract from the point I was making about the nature of his actual death as a suicide rather than a homicide.
Re Emperor Nero - that could be a possibility! Or maybe they got confused with other emperors (most were assassinated, from what I can gather!) You're welcome - re the books... :)
It probably did happen because people didn't tolerate others. I read Anne Frank's diary relatively recently - tragic end to such a brave girl. I felt so sad when I read the parts where she was telling 'kitty' what she wanted to do after the war, of course she didn't survive! I've read a few accounts of WWII holocaust survivors (and those who perished). Some think we shouldn't look back, I believe if we don't look back we can't learn from the horrific things which happened!
Ed I expelled the Jews and then Oliver Cromwell allowed them back into the country! I remember reading ages ago that the Anglo Saxons called the Welsh 'Strangers' (that's where the word Welsh/Wales came from) Of all the cheek! (I'm Welsh btw, with a bit of English and Spanish thrown in - I think I may have Scottish ancestry as well, so I'm a bit of a mix - Heinz 57 varieties...)
... treatment of prisoners of war! Some of the things they (the axis) did to the poor men and women were beyond anything imaginable! I had nightmares for weeks after reading. Some of the accounts were horrific in themselves, then Lord Russell put - I will not detail anymore because it's too bad... Unless you have a strong constitution and you can still get them, I wouldn't recommend reading them - too horrific for words! Mankind can do some evil things... We are our own enemy!
@@ashah8656 where? what? I read historical sources and most of them say he killed himself, like Tacitus or Suetonius or Cassius Dio . And most historians are agreed of this. YOUR sources are wrong!
They were volatile times tbh! Look at a king or ruler the wrong way and you would have your head chopped off (or so it seemed)! The English have been merciless towards the 3 nations of Wales, Scotland and Ireland throughout the centuries (especially Ed I - 'Longshanks') Sorry if you're English... The Catholic/Protestant thing has been going for centuries and in my mind is nuts! I'm not Catholic but I've had Catholic friends!
I knew K.H. was young when she married Henry (she was Anne Boleyn's cousin). I can't get my head around the fact that people followed Hitler and his aryan race ideal considering he had dark hair and I don't think that tall, and he looked weedy! People can be so gullible! I read 2 books years ago - one called Knights of Bushido and the other, Scourge of the Swasticka - they were accounts of the Nuremburg Trials, written by Lord Russell of Liverpool - they documented the Japanese and German...
had his mother murdered and murdered his first wife! He also had thousands of Christians (and maybe others) murdered in horrific ways - like pouring tar on them and setting them on fire - gross! He was the pits!
I thought he slashed his own throat while hiding in his garden right before they caught him??? (Oh well... In any case; what an artist the world has lost!)
He was said to be terrible by biased historians of his time, because he neglected both the military and the senate. He focused only on growing Roman culture and art, which warmongering Roman high officials hated.
Heard he probably wasn't even in Rome at the time of the fire, an additional note massive fires were apparently common in Rome during that time according to the historian Tactius.
PokeFan10025 He couldn't do it himself, he had his secretary kill him. I am not sure where that falls on the cause of death. Assisted Suicide? Murder? He was minutes away from assassination as his pursuers arrived before he bled out completely. Of course, as he could not speak when he was found, there was only the word of the man who killed him to explain what happened.
Well, even if he had his secretary kill him, he did tell him/her to kill him, so it's technically suicide... Y'know, now that I'm thinking about it why can't he kill himself, why need another to do it?
PokeFan10025 I would distrust anyone who claimed the dead person wanted to be killed. I know there have been suicide/murder pacts, but in this situation, with the pursuers so close, I think it is more likely the secretary knew if he was caught with Nero he would be killed too. He was probably a slave, most secretaries were. If he fled he would face being hunted down and tortured. If he killed his master he and all other slaves that served Nero would be tortured before being killed. Even with Nero being a public enemy, slaves who killed their masters might give others ideas. So faced with the options of running away and being hunted, being killed beside his master, admitting he killed Nero, and claiming it was suicide and Nero was a coward, his best chance of survival was claim it was at Nero's order I think the secretary's best chance of survival would be to claim it was assisted suicide. Also, Nero was a Drama Emperor, if he was going to commit suicide wouldn't he do it where he could make a grand show of it?
I know he committed suicide, but what I'm saying is that he killed himself, rather than face the utter humiliation of being executed publicly and in such a hidious fashion
Sources differ. One has to remember that many of the contemporary authors really didn't like him much, so their bias might make his death more or less humiliating if they felt like it. One way or the other, everyone decided he had to go
I can't remember what I thought of history when I was younger (it was ages ago) - I know in high school I hated it! I developed a love for it about 20 years ago! I think I used to switch off in school! The times can get confusing though when certain things occured, who was who and who said what etc! I enjoy it now though! Read a good book about Eva Braun (Hitler's woman) - sad in a way! He treated her like a 2nd class citizen! (forgot to mention that book the other day)...
I read an article years ago on the Irish incident which claimed the account was fabricated and in actual fact his men didn't slaughter anyone, but as with history who knows for sure what happens? There's a lot of propaganda floating around on both sides! Will see what my book says (when I get around to reading it :) )
Fun fact: 69 AD became known as the year of the four emperors cause the emperors kept dropping like flies
So that's why people keep making a big deal about that number.
@@abbieb8130 It was BAD. Vespasian was the first emperor since Claudius to not be a total maniac or be quickly deposed. The Crisis of the Third Century was even worse though. For something like 80 years, Rome averaged a new emperor every 6-18 months. It came to an end with Diocletian, and after one more round of civil war, Constantine finally stabilized the damaged empire more long term.
"He has a wife, you know...her name is Incontinenta"...
Buttocks
"this year we start again... clean sheet or should I say 'clean toga'? haha, that was a joke, calm down!"
Praetorians: the leading cause of death in Roman emperors.
Aurelian no!
having now watched unbiased history, this skit really undersells the nature of the praetorian (watch the crisis of the 3rd century as the praetorian killed over 50% of the emperors including Aurelian the restorer of the world)
Didn't the Praetorians sell the Emperor position in auction at some point?
Some bodyguards, they were...
Anonymous Mind Yes, they sold it to a guy named Didius Julianius
It’s a 2 minutes skit from a kids show mate... it can’t exactly be a documentary all by itself
The Praetorian Guard were the ULTIMATE bad guys of Rome. Constantine finally disbanded them after becoming emperor in 313. If Disney ever made a film on Ancient Rome, these guys or their Captain would have been the villains.
@@thunderbird1921 97 years after the Praetorian Guard was disbanded, the Roman empire was destroyed.
0:34 Well Nero wasn't killed on their watch he was abandoned by the guards after a bribe.
And because the two Praetorian prefects sided with the Senate when they declared him an enemy of the state.
he is most likely to have committed suicide after being declared an enemy of the state
10 years later and still a great series
The Emperor is not dead, he's just resting.
We should call 2022 the year of 3 prime ministers since 69AD was called the year of 5 emperors
I do love it - especially learning about the lives of people! Going to start reading a book about Anthony Ashley Cooper - 7th Earl of Shaftesbury soon - he was a 19th century reformer :) Hope you get where you want to be with your history! Work hard and do well :D
WHO-HA!
Who...ever
X'D
why am i on a horrible history’s binge
Jalaal is hilarious in this sketch, I love him😂
Nero was betrayed by the Praetorian guards and sealed in a room of the palace. Before they could get to him, Nero had a friend in the room with him cut his throat for him.
I imagine it was hard to not become jaded as a Pretorian during 69AD ^.^
Not really, every new emperor gave the Praetorian guard a bonus on becoming emperor. It gave emperor's a real incentive to avoid pay disputes!
Grogery 1 if the guard got a bonus every time they got a new emperor, then it would seem to give the guards more reason to make sure the emperor kept changing... imagine the xmas bonus they got in 69CE.
@@punkwrestle You are correct, the Praetorian Guard was in some ways responsible for the downfall of Rome because every time they wanted some money they killed the emperor and then auctioned off the job to the next sucker.
I actually remember that being a scenario on "Age of Empires: Rise of Rome". I think building a Wonder was required to beat the other CPU players on that level.
This is obvious from the skit, which references the "Year of the Four Emperors".
During this time, the Praetorian Guard was instrumental in Nero's downfall, installed Galba as emperor, decided it didn't like Galba (decrease in pay), killed Galba, and installed Otho as emperor. Unfortunately for Otho, the German legions were stronger than the Praetorian Guard. Unfortunately for Vitellius, the Syrian, Judean, and Danubian legions supported Vespasian, beginning the line of Flavian emperors.
ngl I'm still referring to this as an ancient history student, but with names like Tacitus and Suetonius racing through my head and a detailed practice essay about 69ad and it's failures open on my laptop 😂😂
I love Horrible historical
Can't say I would feel all that dutiful about protecting Emperor Nero.
My favorite Horrible Histories skit.
This is why you need a Varangian guard
Or the Germanic guard some emperors had
Apparently his first few years as emperor were actually ok, but it seems to have went downhill when he fell ill or when some assassination attempt was made, I can't remember which one it was.
"-wasn't us this time"
who would want to protector Emperor Nero?
Parthians
I would.
Skylar Bowrey I highly doubt they would’ve had a choice.
The poor who adored him?
HolyknightVader999 Accusing him of having Rome burnt to the ground is a pretty funny way to show love.
The ECW isn't a period I know a lot about - I have a rather thick book on the life of Oliver Cromwell, I have yet to read! I'm sure I'll get through it some day :)
Hoo Ha!
Who ever.
The rat held up a sign which said Nero was murdered in AD68, but he wasn't murdered - he committed suicide which is rather different!
From what I can tell, it was a bit of both, the Guard tried to kill him, but Nero killed himself to prevent the guard from having the satisfaction of killing him
Figured it out: it's Jalaal Hartley. He is in the Agincourt sketch too. Wasn't with the show very long, but did the ironic-indifference thing really well.
Not precisely a pay rise, but Otho did give all the Praetorians a cash bonus on becoming emperor - he knew which side his bread was buttered!
Damn, they make this funny.
AD, not BC. The BC moves backwards because it moves towards the AD years, however the AD is what we use now, that moves forwards each year.
I started reading a biography about Marie Antoinette, but got a bit confused with all the people mentioned - I didn't finish it - another book to read sometime. I started reading Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (before the film was thought of), another interesting character. 2 fascinating books are - The Princes in the Tower (Alison Weir) and Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II (Paul Doherty). Princess (Jean Sassoon) is a good book about a Saudi Royal Princess - true story!
...Thumbs up to the make up artist o.o I couldn't tell :o
I love history - especially Roman history They had some rather colourful, (shall we say), emperors. They were an amazing culture, despite the myriad of evil emperors they were phenominal architects, were clean, and cultured. They grew to be very hedonistic and arrogant - there was a lot of infighting, laziness etc which brought about their downfall!
thanks, forgot about this funny video. Sorry about your close loss in Ohio!! :)
0:28 not realy nero was comited suicide but he asked his servant to stab him because. idk he dont know how to stab himself maybe
... it's called The Lost Life of Eva Braun (Angela Lambert) - very interesting! Another book I have yet to start (it's VERY thick and I have other things on the go!) is Hitler and Stalin Parallel Lives (Alan Bullock) - looks really good! Have you seen The Pianist? Get hold of the book (it's by Wladyslaw Szpilman) - it's good and has excerpts of the German Officer's diary - not all 'Nazis' were pro-Hitler...
Think Jalaal Hartley plays him. He's also in the Nazi sketch and the caveman on Historical Masterchef.
Who is playing the Hoo-Ha bodyguard? The one with too much eye makeup?
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at least after that Vespasian ruled for 10 years
Who plays the guy who keeps missing his cue? o.o
But they mentioned that one of the Emperors killed himself.
I should also point out that said emperor was known as "Otho," not Otto.
much love :)
Bloody hell, man, the caps are unnecessary. To address your point, yes he was in a villa, offered by a sympathiser, but that doesn't really detract from the point I was making about the nature of his actual death as a suicide rather than a homicide.
Hu_ ever... I like the new guy.
Re Emperor Nero - that could be a possibility! Or maybe they got confused with other emperors (most were assassinated, from what I can gather!)
You're welcome - re the books... :)
0:32 Didn’t Nero kill himself?
The term 'Welsh' is derived from the Old English welsche meaning foreign.
He took his own life, not before taking the lives of a few others as well! Vile guy...
Is Nero the one who stood and laughed when Rome burned ??
They say he fiddled while Rome burned.
He was also the one who had the apostle Paul executed.
He definitely didn’t fiddle whilst Rome burned because the fiddle wasn’t invented yet.
Emperor Nero committed suicide.
It probably did happen because people didn't tolerate others. I read Anne Frank's diary relatively recently - tragic end to such a brave girl. I felt so sad when I read the parts where she was telling 'kitty' what she wanted to do after the war, of course she didn't survive! I've read a few accounts of WWII holocaust survivors (and those who perished). Some think we shouldn't look back, I believe if we don't look back we can't learn from the horrific things which happened!
Nero would sure be up there with Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot - he'd be in the top 10 of despotic loony leaders!
For Rome 2, I decide NOT to have Praetorians as my guards.
dr who reference , i love it :)
Where?
No idea where that was
0:48
That was the joke in this that they mentioned.
Ed I expelled the Jews and then Oliver Cromwell allowed them back into the country! I remember reading ages ago that the Anglo Saxons called the Welsh 'Strangers' (that's where the word Welsh/Wales came from) Of all the cheek! (I'm Welsh btw, with a bit of English and Spanish thrown in - I think I may have Scottish ancestry as well, so I'm a bit of a mix - Heinz 57 varieties...)
... treatment of prisoners of war! Some of the things they (the axis) did to the poor men and women were beyond anything imaginable! I had nightmares for weeks after reading. Some of the accounts were horrific in themselves, then Lord Russell put - I will not detail anymore because it's too bad... Unless you have a strong constitution and you can still get them, I wouldn't recommend reading them - too horrific for words! Mankind can do some evil things... We are our own enemy!
very funny!
0:30 "Emperor Nero was assasinatedin 68 AD"
Nope, he wasn't assasinated, it was well know suicide.
urmo345 not really, reports varied. Most historians agreed it was an assassination.
@@ashah8656 where? what? I read historical sources and most of them say he killed himself, like Tacitus or Suetonius or Cassius Dio . And most historians are agreed of this. YOUR sources are wrong!
@@paladinoestetica There is no such rule
Wasn't Nero assassinated by his own troops anyway? He was a fucking horrible emperor to say the least
They were volatile times tbh! Look at a king or ruler the wrong way and you would have your head chopped off (or so it seemed)! The English have been merciless towards the 3 nations of Wales, Scotland and Ireland throughout the centuries (especially Ed I - 'Longshanks') Sorry if you're English... The Catholic/Protestant thing has been going for centuries and in my mind is nuts! I'm not Catholic but I've had Catholic friends!
I knew K.H. was young when she married Henry (she was Anne Boleyn's cousin). I can't get my head around the fact that people followed Hitler and his aryan race ideal considering he had dark hair and I don't think that tall, and he looked weedy! People can be so gullible! I read 2 books years ago - one called Knights of Bushido and the other, Scourge of the Swasticka - they were accounts of the Nuremburg Trials, written by Lord Russell of Liverpool - they documented the Japanese and German...
had his mother murdered and murdered his first wife! He also had thousands of Christians (and maybe others) murdered in horrific ways - like pouring tar on them and setting them on fire - gross! He was the pits!
Emperor Nero committed suicide - he wasn't murdered!
He couldn't do it himself? Well to be fair he meant have been too scared.
Is anybody else seeing a pattern here?
I thought he slashed his own throat while hiding in his garden right before they caught him??? (Oh well... In any case; what an artist the world has lost!)
He was said to be terrible by biased historians of his time, because he neglected both the military and the senate.
He focused only on growing Roman culture and art, which warmongering Roman high officials hated.
Heard he probably wasn't even in Rome at the time of the fire, an additional note massive fires were apparently common in Rome during that time according to the historian Tactius.
Nah, that was Caligula.
hoo ha
I thought Emperor Nero killed himself...
he did
Well then why does it say that Emperor Nero was assassinated?
PokeFan10025 He couldn't do it himself, he had his secretary kill him. I am not sure where that falls on the cause of death. Assisted Suicide? Murder? He was minutes away from assassination as his pursuers arrived before he bled out completely. Of course, as he could not speak when he was found, there was only the word of the man who killed him to explain what happened.
Well, even if he had his secretary kill him, he did tell him/her to kill him, so it's technically suicide... Y'know, now that I'm thinking about it why can't he kill himself, why need another to do it?
PokeFan10025 I would distrust anyone who claimed the dead person wanted to be killed. I know there have been suicide/murder pacts, but in this situation, with the pursuers so close, I think it is more likely the secretary knew if he was caught with Nero he would be killed too. He was probably a slave, most secretaries were. If he fled he would face being hunted down and tortured. If he killed his master he and all other slaves that served Nero would be tortured before being killed. Even with Nero being a public enemy, slaves who killed their masters might give others ideas.
So faced with the options of running away and being hunted, being killed beside his master, admitting he killed Nero, and claiming it was suicide and Nero was a coward, his best chance of survival was claim it was at Nero's order I think the secretary's best chance of survival would be to claim it was assisted suicide.
Also, Nero was a Drama Emperor, if he was going to commit suicide wouldn't he do it where he could make a grand show of it?
I know he committed suicide, but what I'm saying is that he killed himself, rather than face the utter humiliation of being executed publicly and in such a hidious fashion
He was such a weirdo maybe he'd enjoy that... ;)
here! :D
Hoo Ha.
Sources differ. One has to remember that many of the contemporary authors really didn't like him much, so their bias might make his death more or less humiliating if they felt like it.
One way or the other, everyone decided he had to go
the Praetorians didn't exactly protect most of the emperors that were assassinated, they killed him themselves, just sayin'....:) but this is funny
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I can't remember what I thought of history when I was younger (it was ages ago) - I know in high school I hated it! I developed a love for it about 20 years ago! I think I used to switch off in school! The times can get confusing though when certain things occured, who was who and who said what etc! I enjoy it now though! Read a good book about Eva Braun (Hitler's woman) - sad in a way! He treated her like a 2nd class citizen! (forgot to mention that book the other day)...
I read an article years ago on the Irish incident which claimed the account was fabricated and in actual fact his men didn't slaughter anyone, but as with history who knows for sure what happens? There's a lot of propaganda floating around on both sides! Will see what my book says (when I get around to reading it :) )
whoever
nero died woohoo
better than constantine the traitor. :[
FAIL, xD
Stop chanting and get to work
Roman Empire sucked
@I only feel Pain!!! MY NAME SUCKS?!
@I only feel Pain!!! SNOWFLAKE?!
@I only feel Pain!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO